Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R), also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Peter Dutton (C), leader of the federal opposition, in Canberra, Australia, March 20, 2024. Simon Birmingham, the opposition's foreign affairs spokesperson...
His ideas on consolidating relations with Britain were influential in the first decades of the Australian commonwealth. The Federal Story, his reflections on the struggle to federate Australia, was published posthumously in 1944. Britannica Quiz Australian Government and Political System This article was...
And most recently, the opt-out window forthe My Health Recordonline medical file has gone less than smoothly, with the federal governmentgoing into damage controlover the past week to assure Australians their medical information is safe, despite automatically creating a file on individuals that cann...
The chancellor acts as the head of government and in Germany is largely independent of the president's influence. The chancellor there is seen as the true chief executive of the country, but that's not always the case. In Switzerland, the federal chancellor is not the head of gover...
Fisher emigrated fromEnglandtoQueenslandin 1885, worked as a coal miner and union leader, and was elected to the state legislature in 1893. In 1901 he served in the first federal Parliament and, briefly, in the first Labor government in 1904, assuming party leadership in 1907. His second ter...
People take part in an event to mourn for the victims who died of abuses by former indigenous residential schools in Toronto, Canada, on July 1, 2021. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is the federal police organization, would come into Indian communities...
Until Saturday, Newspoll had accurately predicted the winner of every Australian state and federal election since its inception in 1985. Australia has made voting compulsory, so pollsters’ surveys of Australians’ party preferences usually come close to the election result. Newspolls are published ev...
As is the case in several countries, while the government is not antisemitic, and Australia was among the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, there are sectors of the population that are rabidly antisemitic and others that behave with political correctness but exude an ...
During the weeks leading up to Australia's federal election, debate about climate change was strangely absent. Both major parties failed to really address the issue or announce any significant environmental policies that were able to cut through the focus on the cost...
— AUSTRALIA BACKS EU CALL FOR VIRUS PROBE: Health Minister Greg Hunt says Australia's government supports a European Union motion for an independent investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in China. Australia has called for such an inquiry for some weeks to better understand how the...